Vernon “Trey” Keeve III, PhD, author and educator, joins us for an online event via San Jose State University where he will read from his book, Southern Migrant Mixtape, and engage us in a discussion on the intersections of life, love, loss, grief, and literary expression.

Find Keeve’s book at Black Lawrence Press.

Sheila Smith McKoy, PhD, poet and historian, visits San Jose State University to discuss her book, The Bones Beneath, and the social construction of race.

Find Smith McKoy’s book at Black Lawrence Press.

Carmen Brammer, local activist, visits San Jose State University to discuss The Mandate and The Vote: empowering Black and Brown Communities in shaping our Santa Clara County political landscape.

Read more about Brammer’s work across the web and on San Jose Spotlight.

Check out Margalynne Armstrong, Lyzette Wanzer, Jewelle Gomez, and Judy Juanita reading from their anthology, “Trauma, Tresses, & Truth” at a DPWC hybrid event.

And read Israel Archie (journalism major) summarize the event in his article, “African American Authors discuss the Politics of Black Hair.”

Check out DPWC’s roster of roundtable guests for the 2021-22 school year: Tureeda Mikell, Daniel B. Summerhill, Vernon Keeve III, Blackbook and its founding team, MK Chavez, and Keenan Norris.

Legacy of Poetry, 2021, was themed, Closing the Distance: Sheltering in Technolog(ies). See our talented member-poets featured with: Daniel B. Summerhill, Tureeda Mikell, Vernon Keeve III, MK Chavez, and Keenan Norris.

Interview with author and scholar of Iranian Diaspora studies, Persis Karim. See her relate diaspora to seed planting. Read what she says about community and her work with the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition.

Interview with author, activist, and cosmopolite, Faith Adiele. Read about what Adiele says about the craft of writing and weathering the pandemic. Learn why she calls artists first responders.